Emma’s Amazing Alphabet

Today I am so happy to share with you a beautiful new collection and quilt that my daughter Emma and I made together. Emma’s Amazing Alphabet.

The Emma’s Amazing Alphabet collection contains all 26 letters of the alphabet, perfectly sized for the 5×7″ (180x130cm). Each letter includes an image to match the letter, allowing children to visually see the alphabet, and what each letter stands for.

My Beautiful Emma helped me to make this quilt – she stitched out all of the letters by herself, and chose the colours. If you can ignore the mess in the background of the image below, you will see that just like her mother, she is compulsive about lining up her threads ready for stitching in order.

Below are the instructions for our quilt.

Emma’s Amazing Alphabet Quilt Instructions

It’s never too early to teach your young one the abc’s. I have been so happy this Christmas to find out that one of my beautiful nieces is expecting her first child. Immediately I wanted to make a keepsake for the baby. This quilt is perfect because it can be used as either a wall quilt, floor quilt, or on the baby’s bed. Choose bright colours to engage the child’s imagination.

Embroider the block following the colour guide included with your designs. Ensure that you trim any jump stitches between each colour change; this will help keep your embroidery looking fantastic, and help with not having a huge mess of threads to trim at the end.

Remove the embroidery from the hoop, and trim the last of any threads.

Once the quilt is together, take the border fabric, and cut 4½” strips to go around the quilt. I required 6.

Join the strips to form one long strip, and begin to stitching the border fabric to the sides of the quilt. Press

Stitch the border fabric to the top and bottom of the quilt. Press.

Make a quilt sandwich using the backing, pellon/wadding, and quilt top.

Use safety pins to hold all 3 layers together.

Quilt as per your preference. I have used a stipping technique and white thread to blend in.

Cut your binding strips into 2.5” strips, and bind your quilt using your favourite method. I like to fold the strips in half, stitch to the front of the quilt, and then hand stitch around the back of the quilt.

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2 Comments

Pat Laird

February 15, 2016 at 7:13 am

Congratulations Emma on your wonderful quilt you have done an amazing job. Julie I can understand how proud you are of Emma, it is something special when you can share a project with your daughter, and I must say she is a very pretty girl. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more of your projects. I am now going to purchase the designs!!
Best wishes.
Pat.